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Transaction Switching

Around the world, financial institutions require functional, compliant and flexible systems that can acquire, authenticate, route, and authorize large volumes of financial and non-financial transactions across multiple channels. The foundation platform used for the payments processing business is switching. The switch drives all the industry standard front-end devices such as ATMs, POS, cash-in systems, and provides transaction authorization by connecting to hosts, interchanges and co-networks. Transaction processing as a business expects reliability, scalability, flexibility, extendibility, availability & efficiency from a switching application.

Attra Switching Expertise Attra has an excellent record of accomplishment in terms of switching projects. We have handled a large number of switching projects, spanning the entire gamut of activities end to end, in geographies that include India, US, South East Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa and Europe. Attra has a large pool of Postilion expertise at its disposal working with clients that include banks, retailers as well as payment processors.

Attra has proven expertise in delivering the following variety of Switching Services projects:

Training Services

Switch Application & Maintenance Support

Attra provides 24X7 Level 1, 2 and 3 Application Support to its customers on their switching applications across different geographies. All of the required support may be extended from Attra’s state of the art development centers in India thus passing the reduced cost of support to its customers. Attra’s support services are ITIL compliant thus adhering to established processes while deploying the best practices gained from Attra’s personal experience in executing such initiatives.

Attra provides Maintenance services like monitoring & support with 99.9% server availability. Attra also helps its customers in designing and implementing DR process.

Application Development & Maintenance

Attra provides Application Development services around switch interfaces, integration frameworks, Plug-in development, ATM download development and so on. Attra has specific expertise on Postilion SDK thus extending end to end development services on Postilion application itself.

System Integration Services

Bank’s implementing a new switch or migrating from an old switch to a new switch often require integration of the switch with all the key interfaces such as a Card Management System, Core banking system, fraud management system, HSM and so on. Attra offers system integration services that includes,

Customizations to bridge gaps between functionalities

Developing the Interface to integrate the new platform with satellite systems

Focusing on using APIs provided by the new application to reduce customizations of product

Testing Services

Attra has considerable expertise in testing with a focused testing team on switching services. Testing services pertinent to the switching applications typically include:

Independent Testing services (client requirement driven)

System Integration Testing

User Acceptance Testing

Stress Testing

Platform Testing

Interface Testing

Migration Testing

Functional Testing

Certification Testing

Performance Testing

Advisory, Consulting & Infrastructure Services

Attra provides consultation services to customers for selecting the optimal switch (to match the bank’s cost and processing requirements), product certification, peripheral application selection and hardware selection. Attra also supports in switch migration, switch version upgrade, database sizing, database migration, HSM upgrade and HSM migration. Many a times, for banks using legacy systems, the business processes may be undocumented or not documented well. Attra offers services to understand the switch application, its interfaces and configuration with appropriate documentation of the system.

System Tuning Services

Attra offers system tuning services that is aimed at mapping the system configuration optimally to meet the bank’s business requirements. With some key modifications and optimizations, a bank may yield maximum output from its current processing switch.

Training Services

To help banks familiarize with switch and migration to the new system or higher version, Attra offers knowledge acquisition training, induction training and user training to train the trainer as well as the trainees.